Forbidden Cargo (Original title)
Dates: 1954 (Copyright), 31 May 1954 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Harold French
Synopsis: With the assistance of a birdwatcher customs officers capture a gang of drugs smugglers.
Genre: Police drama
Releases
Date: 1954Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 83 mins Length: 7700 FeetDialogue (original): English
Title: [The Film Daily - v109 n110 7 Jun 1956: no known title]Language: English
In: Variety 12 May 1954
Title: [Variety - 12 May 1954: no known title]Language: English
In: Kinematograph Weekly n2444 29 Apr 1954 Page: 22
Title: [Kinematograph Weekly - n2444 29 Apr 1954: no known title]Language: English
In: Monthly Film Bulletin v21 n245 June 1954 Page: 87
Title: [Monthly Film Bulletin - v21 n245 June 1954: no known title]Language: English
In: Today's Cinema v82 n6996 22 Apr 1954 Page: 6
Title: [Today's Cinema - v82 n6996 22 Apr 1954: no known title]Language: English
Description: GFD.
Film, Video or Digital materials held in BFI National Archive(3)
Film materials(3)
Description: 35mm Dupe NegativeBase: SafetySound: MuteLength: 7709 FeetBFI identifier: C-654676
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film - suitable for duplication
Description: 35mm Duplicating PositiveBase: SafetySound: CombinedLength: 7709 FeetBFI identifier: C-763663
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Original NegativeBase: SafetySound: SoundLength: 7709 FeetBFI identifier: C-654677
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film - suitable for duplication
Dates: 1954 (Copyright), 31 May 1954 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Harold French
Synopsis: With the assistance of a birdwatcher customs officers capture a gang of drugs smugglers.
Genre: Police drama
Releases
Date: 1954Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 83 mins Length: 7700 FeetDialogue (original): English
Credits
(45)
©/Production Company: London Independent Producers, Presents: The J. Arthur Rank Organisation, Executive Producer: Earl St. John, Produced by: Sydney Box, Production Manager: Douglas Peirce, [Production Manager]: Billy Asher, Production Controller: Arthur Alcott, [Production Secretary]: Sheila O'Donnell, 2nd Unit Director: Douglas Peirce, Assistant Director: Ernest Morris, [Assistant Director (2nd)]: Stanley Hosgood, [Assistant Director (3rd)]: Michael Healey, [Continuity]: Kathleen Hosgood, [Casting]: Weston Drury Jr, Written by: Sydney Box, Director of Photography: C. Pennington-richards, Second Unit Cameraman: Peter Hennessy, Camera Operator: Reginald Morris, [Focus Puller]: Steve Claydon, [Clapper Loader]: James Devis, [Stills]: George Courtney Ward, Film Editor: Anne V. Coates, [Assistant Editor (1st)]: Michael Johns, [Assistant Editor (2nd)]: John Hann-Campbell, Art Director: John Howell, [Set Dresser]: Arthur Taksen, [Draughtsman]: Tony Masters, [Draughtsman]: Robert Cartwright, Roy Stannard, Dress Designer: Joan Ellacott, Furs by: Calman Links, Make-up: Geoffrey Rodway, Music Composed and Directed by: Lambert Williamson, [Music Recording]: Ted Drake, Sound: C.C. Stevens, Sound: Gordon K. McCallum, [Sound Camera Operator]: Larry Thompson, [Boom Operator]: Robert T. MacPhee, [Boom Assistant]: John Brommage, [Dubbing Crew]: Gordon K. McCallum, Bill Daniels, Sound Editor: Graeme Hamilton, [Assistant Sound Editor]: Michael Batchelor, Made at: Pinewood Studios
Cast
(40)
Nigel Patrick (Michael Kenyon), Elizabeth Sellars (Rita Compton), Terence Morgan (Roger Compton), Greta Gynt (Madame Simonetta), Joyce Grenfell (Lady Flavia Queensway), Theodore Bikel (Max), Eric Pohlmann (Stephen Lasovic), Jack Warner (Alec White), Michael Hordern ([director]), Jacques Brunius ([Pierre Valence]), Martin Boddey ([Holt]), James Gilbert ([Larkins]), Brian Wilde, Ivor Colin ([alcohol smuggler]), Ronald Adam ([Mr Bennett]), Denis Shaw ([ship's cook]), Ballard Berkeley ([Cooper]), Philip Dale, Robin Hunter ([A.P.O.]), Tom Gill ([Montana hotel receptionist]), Douglas Ives, Johnny Singer ([seaman]), Joan Winmill ([W.S.O.]), Hal Osmond ([cloakroom attendant, Victoria Station]), Nicholas Phipps ([naval officer, Admiralty Room]), Campbell Singer ([river police sergeant]), Cyril Chamberlain ([customs officer, airport]), Philip Stainton ([police sergeant, Seaburyness]), Lloyd Lamble ([captain of The Python]), John Horsley ([A.P.O., London airport]), John Arnatt ([customs officer]), Herbert C. Walton ([old man in dungarees]), Hamilton Keene ([P.O., London airport]), Michael Ingham ([tall man at party]), Jacques Cey ([little Frenchman]), Arnold Diamond ([French customs officer]), Jill Adams ([young woman dancing with Michael]), Guy de Monceau ([headwaiter]), Campbell Gray ([Luigi]), Terence Longdon ([A.P.O., customs launch])
Articles held in BFI Reuben Library
(5)
In: The Film Daily v109 n110 7 Jun 1956 Page: 6Title: [The Film Daily - v109 n110 7 Jun 1956: no known title]Language: English
In: Variety 12 May 1954
Title: [Variety - 12 May 1954: no known title]Language: English
In: Kinematograph Weekly n2444 29 Apr 1954 Page: 22
Title: [Kinematograph Weekly - n2444 29 Apr 1954: no known title]Language: English
In: Monthly Film Bulletin v21 n245 June 1954 Page: 87
Title: [Monthly Film Bulletin - v21 n245 June 1954: no known title]Language: English
In: Today's Cinema v82 n6996 22 Apr 1954 Page: 6
Title: [Today's Cinema - v82 n6996 22 Apr 1954: no known title]Language: English
Description: GFD.
Film, Video or Digital materials held in BFI National Archive(3)
Film materials(3)
Description: 35mm Dupe NegativeBase: SafetySound: MuteLength: 7709 FeetBFI identifier: C-654676
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film - suitable for duplication
Description: 35mm Duplicating PositiveBase: SafetySound: CombinedLength: 7709 FeetBFI identifier: C-763663
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Original NegativeBase: SafetySound: SoundLength: 7709 FeetBFI identifier: C-654677
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film - suitable for duplication